United Nations Investigating Whether WikiLeaker Bradley Manning Is Being Tortured

Following Glenn Greenwald's
report at Salon last week that Pfc. Bradley
Manning -- the soldier accused of leaking secret
documents to WikiLeaks - is being kept under conditions
equivalent to torture the United Nations is investigating.

The United Nations' top anti-torture envoy is looking into a
complaint that the Army private suspected of giving classified
documents to WikiLeaks has been mistreated in custody, a
spokesperson said Wednesday.

The office of Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture in
Geneva, received a complaint from one of Pfc. Bradley Manning's
supporters alleging conditions in a Marine Corps brig in
Quantico, Va., amount to torture, said spokesperson Xabier
Celaya. Visitors say he spends at least 23 hours a day alone in a
cell.